Curriculum Overview
| Autumn 1 (7 weeks) | Autumn 2 (7.8 weeks) | Spring 1 (5 weeks) | Spring 2 (5.8 weeks) | Summer 1 (6 weeks) | Summer 2 (7.6 weeks) |
English 1 | Describe Description Hairy Maclary | Entertain: Narrative Contemporary Fiction Egg Box Dragon | Recount: Direct recount Writing from own experiences | Entertain: Narrative Traditional Tales Tales from around the world | Entertain: Narrative: Classic Literature A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare) | Entertain: Narrative Contemporary Fiction
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English 2 | Entertain: Narrative Contemporary Fiction Lost and Found The Lion Inside Billy and the Beast | Socialise: Letter writing The Jolly Postman | Entertain: Narrative Contemporary Fiction Visual literacy Here Comes Frankie | Entertain: Poetry Big Green Crocodile
| Describe: Non chronological Geographical report Link with Geography unit | Recount: Indirect Biography History link (significant people) |
Maths | Number: counting within 100
| Number: comparison, wholes and parts Number: place value (0 to 5) Geometry: shape | Geometry: shape Number: place value (0 to 10) Number: addition | Number: addition Number: addition and subtraction facts within 10 | Number: place value (0 to 20) Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition) | Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition) Geometry: position and direction Measurement: time |
Science | Animals
Seasonal changes -Autumn
Scientist focus: Anders Celsius | Everyday Materials
Scientist focus: Charles Mackintosh | Animals, including humans My Body Seasonal changes -Winter Scientist focus: Steve Backshall | STEM Project
Seasonal changes -Spring
Scientist focus: Linda Brown Buck
| Seasonal Changes | Plants
Scientist focus:Beatrix Potter |
History |
| How did these people make a change in the world? Rosa Parks (BHM) Millicent Fawcett Malala Yousafzai (BHM) |
| How much have toys and games changed over time?
Continuity and change enquiry |
| Why are the journeys of Mansa Musa and Ibn Battuta remembered?
Significance enquiry |
Geography | Mapping our Area- Local Area study |
| The UK – countries, capitals, seas, seasons, weather, settlements |
| Comparative Study- London & Nairobi |
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Computing | Computing and Networks Technology around us | Creating Media Digital Painting
| Programming A Moving a Robot
| Data and Information Grouping Data | Creating Media Digital Writing | Programming B Programming animations |
Design and Technology | Mechanisms Sliders and Levers
Project: Moving Picture | Mechanisms Sliders and Levers
Project: Moving Christmas card | Food Preparing fruit and vegetables Project: Fruit salad | Food Preparing fruit and vegetables Project: Fruit smoothies | Structures Freestanding structures Project: structure (prop) from story book | Structures Freestanding structures Project: Bridges |
Music | My Musical Heartbeat How can we make friends when we sing together?
| Dance, Sing and Play How does music tell stories about the past?
| Exploring Sounds How Does Music Make the world a Better Place? | Learning to Listen How does Music Help us to Understand our Neighbours? | Having fun with Improvisation What Songs Can We Sing to Get Us Through the Day? | Learning to play the glockenspiel 1. Understanding pulse, rhythm and pitch and starting to read musical notation. (Act 1&2) |
Art | Drawing Mark making with range of materials - Howard Hodgkin Make own tools Create and use different surface Make controlled drawing Use imagination to draw Patrick Caulfield | Painting Use of thick/thin paint Brush strokes - Joan Mitchell Respond to stories using colour Responding to artists work - Jasper Johns
| Printmaking Direct printmaking Negative stencils Combine techniques –layered printed image Clay slab relief Collagraph block Primary colours - Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh, Piet Mondrian | Collage Tear, overlap, stick Identify hot/cold colours Contrasting materials Patrick Heron Andy Goldsworthy Richard Long | Textiles Investigate weaving Embellish fabric Fabric resist technique Wrapping and knotting technique Julia Bland | 3-D/Sculpture Pattern and line Working with clay Use a story as starting point Clay balls and coils Plaster cast mould Andy Goldsworthy Richard Long |
PSHE/ safeguarding
| Physical & Mental Health | Keeping Safe | Relationships: Friends & Family | Respectful & safe Relationships | Living in the Wider World: Financial Literacy | Health & Wellbeing: Ourselves- Growing & Changing |
RE | What does it mean to belong to a faith community? | Who is a Christian and what do they believe? (part 1) | Who is a Muslim and what do they believe? (part 1) | How and why do we celebrate special and sacred times? (Part 1) | What makes some places sacred?
| What makes some places sacred?
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PE | Introduction to Invasion Games | Introduction to Invasion Games | Gymnastics | Athletics | Cricket | Tennis |